Sentences with phrase «natural drainage patterns»

New commercial and residential developments can also cause floods due to changes in natural drainage patterns.

* alteration of natural drainage patterns, causing fisheries impacts and changes in vegetation.

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Natural ones include intraplate stress changes related to plate tectonics and natural water table or lake level variations caused by changing weather patterns or water drainage patterns over time, or advance or retreat of glNatural ones include intraplate stress changes related to plate tectonics and natural water table or lake level variations caused by changing weather patterns or water drainage patterns over time, or advance or retreat of glnatural water table or lake level variations caused by changing weather patterns or water drainage patterns over time, or advance or retreat of glaciers.

Soil, vegetation, and natural drainage, wind, and precipitation patterns become extremely important in determining the kind and quality of human economic activity.